Advanced Manufacturing for Building Envelope Retrofits

This project will use advanced manufacturing techniques to mass-customize and produce energy-efficient and moisture-durable overclad panels for envelope retrofits. To accomplish this goal, the project team will develop new printable materials, design methods to use multi-material printing to co-optimize structural and thermal performance, and integrate existing building materials with customized 3D printing parts that expedite the assembly of the overclad panel. This project will also develop preliminary digital manufacturing procedures that take 3D scanned measurements of existing buildings and efficiently progress them from panel design to assembly, as well as help industry identify which advanced manufacturing techniques can modernize building construction, improve productivity, and increase energy efficiency.